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There are many service providers who provide VPN service. I use VPN service of mp4you.net so I don't worry about my employer.
I was using another VPN service www.vpngates.com, but there are serious bandwidth limitations.

Posted by: Shawn at April 30, 2008 1:53 AM

Also you can use logless public vpn service called VPN Privacy and surf anonymously.

Posted by: Alex at May 27, 2008 6:43 AM

Try http://www.cry.ro/
to anonymous surfing on internet

Posted by: bogdan at August 21, 2008 7:23 AM

do they tell us if we ask what sites we have visited?
Do they know if we are using vpn?
and i'd like someone to answer david's quiestion if they can still peek even when we have cleared the history...
Do they have the sites that we have visited in a database record or something?

*DO* they? There's no way to know for sure. Some might, but I suspect most do not. You're just not that intersting.

*COULD* they? Yes, of course.

There's no way to know exactly what any specific ISP is actually doing. And whatever you might find out today about one ISP will be different tomorrow, or for any other ISP. The important thing here is to know that they COULD, not try and rely on what the DO.

-Leo

Posted by: Brandon at September 1, 2008 4:04 AM

my ex wife is a school teacher. she emailed me from her home computer. why did her home IP address not show up. only her her school email IP did. my son emailed from the same house under his yahoo email and their home IP address came up. it is confusing me.

Posted by: tonja at September 8, 2008 8:55 AM

yes the isp's always monitor your internet usage.... why i say this is because i got a call from my isp....so hell yeah i know they do monitor in somewhat a way your internet activity ... but not 24/7 paranoid kind of way... but its not like they dont even glance at it at all....

Posted by: let it be known at October 22, 2008 9:34 AM

if i change the properties of my vpn i think they couldn't catch me,right :)

Posted by: Anonymous at March 6, 2009 3:19 AM

If I access the internet using my PC, using my employer-provided ISP, and employer-provided modem (which I also use to access the internet on my company laptop, from home) can my employer see what sites i visit on my PC, even if i am not connected to the VPN?

They could. Whether they'd bother to is a different question. No idea on that.

- Leo
13-Mar-2009

Posted by: Anonymous at March 12, 2009 8:56 AM

hey Leo. do u think an ISP can take screen shots of my monitor? or record my monitor screen while i connected to the internet? please answer. thanks!

Posted by: Dilshan at March 19, 2009 11:29 AM

My ISP, Wow Internet, gave me a second offense (first one was cause someone was downloading video game torrents) because I complained about stuff on my Twitter account. All I did was say that I hated my mom and that I hate that adolescents have no freedom. So yes, your ISP is monitoring your internet 24/7. And because I'm a minor, I can't do anything about it but sit there and be paranoid because I can't trust my ISP anymore.

While watching for torrent activity is common, it's more likely that someone complained to your ISP about your behaviour when you made those comments about your mom.

- Leo
05-Apr-2009

Posted by: Joey at April 4, 2009 1:02 PM

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